Nebraska · Nonprofit
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN (Nebraska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,831,256 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Family Service Association of Lincoln does
Mission
Helping families thrive. We are family focused, adaptable, passionate, collaborative, accountable, and preventative.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ccfp - child care food program - our child care food program provided reimbursement to home daycare providers for 2,962,899 meals and snacks through a usda food program in 93 nebraska counties. About 8,816 children in over 587 licensed facilities were served during 2025.
$4,163,575 spent36% of program spendingEcyd - early childhood and youth development - the before and after school program is in 19 lincoln public schools and provides safe, quality care to approximately 2064 children per day in 2025.
$3,177,251 spent$3,237,759 earned by the program27% of program spendingHousing and support services programs provide coordinated resources and care to families to prevent a housing crisis and maintain family stability. Case management support and rental assistance are provided to help families transition from homelessness to housing using the best practice rapid re-housing model. We have three rapid re-housing programs for individuals and families, and one specifically for transition aged youth. We also have a permanent supported housing program for youth. We have one staff member that provides case management to individuals and families with homeless vouchers issued by lincoln housing authority. We also work with the city to provide rental assistance to families with children through referrals from lincoln public schools and wic.
$1,556,444 spent13% of program spendingThe special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, popularly known as wic, is a nutrition program for pregnant, breastfeeding women and families with children younger than 5.
$747,756 spent$13,154 earned by the program6% of program spendingBehavioral health program
$1,252,481 spent11% of program spendingCommunity crops program
$605,434 spent5% of program spendingFiftyone commons is a mixed-use campus that includes affordable housing, a community garden, and a neighborhood support community center. The community center offers non-school day camps for elementary-aged youth, featuring stem-focused learning activities, and provides space for neighborhood events and activities.
$64,918 spent1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,567,859.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $12M to $16M (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 63% · 2018 62% · 2019 59% · 2020 66% · 2021 64% · 2022 64% · 2023 54% · 2024 54% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dennis Hoffman
CEO/president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $187k → $151k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 73% · 2021 85% · 2022 87% · 2023 84% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.8M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.8M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.4M
- Department of Agriculture$373k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN?
- FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN (Nebraska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,831,256 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $5,831,256 in grants to FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LINCOLN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing